jane
Well-Known Member
Last night, we played our own versions of Scattergories and Balderdash, and I discovered that my true calling is probably in writing Lifetime Original movies and/or soap operas.
Not only was the discovery well-timed, since I've been feeling like a talentless, useless, loser, but I also am not joking at all about considering looking into that shit. I would feel no shame in writing a plotline where "elevated highway collapses on eloping lovers, and it turns out that the highway's poor construction was the fault of the bride's morally bankrupt father, who disapproved of their union anyway. Out of guilt, he starts a foundation and spends the remainder of his days carrying out his dead daughter's life's work: teaching feral children to use a knife and fork."
I also want to see a movie about a kid losing a bet with his alco father and then he has to go into the woods and bring back the head of the hermit who lives there, but he gets hit by a rock and is saved by the hermit, and then he can't kill the hermit (who kept vigil by his bedside and nursed his wounds) so he stays and learns the secrets of the forest and also the magical surprise in a dried-up creek bed.
Then there was the one about the ex-FBI agent (now SAHM) who suspects her husband is cheating on her, so she follows him to a rendezvous only to find that her husband's lover is actually a criminal-turned-informant in the witness protection program. She also knows that this woman has killed and will kill again, and so is torn between rage at her husband's betrayal of their sacred vows, and her duty to protect and serve.
That movie is called 'AND WE DANCED'. I expect that it will have Debra Messing attached to play the mistress, Vanessa Williams as the wronged wife, and Meredith Baxter Birney as an embittered old bounty hunter with a hardened cage around her heart of gold.
Pantone, I expect some serious effort from you on this thread.
Not only was the discovery well-timed, since I've been feeling like a talentless, useless, loser, but I also am not joking at all about considering looking into that shit. I would feel no shame in writing a plotline where "elevated highway collapses on eloping lovers, and it turns out that the highway's poor construction was the fault of the bride's morally bankrupt father, who disapproved of their union anyway. Out of guilt, he starts a foundation and spends the remainder of his days carrying out his dead daughter's life's work: teaching feral children to use a knife and fork."
I also want to see a movie about a kid losing a bet with his alco father and then he has to go into the woods and bring back the head of the hermit who lives there, but he gets hit by a rock and is saved by the hermit, and then he can't kill the hermit (who kept vigil by his bedside and nursed his wounds) so he stays and learns the secrets of the forest and also the magical surprise in a dried-up creek bed.
Then there was the one about the ex-FBI agent (now SAHM) who suspects her husband is cheating on her, so she follows him to a rendezvous only to find that her husband's lover is actually a criminal-turned-informant in the witness protection program. She also knows that this woman has killed and will kill again, and so is torn between rage at her husband's betrayal of their sacred vows, and her duty to protect and serve.
That movie is called 'AND WE DANCED'. I expect that it will have Debra Messing attached to play the mistress, Vanessa Williams as the wronged wife, and Meredith Baxter Birney as an embittered old bounty hunter with a hardened cage around her heart of gold.
Pantone, I expect some serious effort from you on this thread.
